BS: Obama Wins!!!

Subject: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: Bobert
Date: 06 Nov 12 - 11:31 PM

Get over it, righties...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Nov 12 - 11:36 PM

It's 4.30 am in UK right now.

For a Brit who doesn't understand the complexities of US voting,
can I now go to bed confident this is a definite indisputable conclusive victory ?

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: sciencegeek
Date: 06 Nov 12 - 11:37 PM

thank god! even my long time Republican mom is a happy camper... she figured out that the Republican Party has gone over to the dark side when she was living in Missouri.

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 06 Nov 12 - 11:42 PM

You could have had a woman. You could have voted Green. Instead you went along with a broken system. You sheep. Baaaa!!
=(:-( P)

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: Don Firth
Date: 06 Nov 12 - 11:49 PM

Hot Dawgies!!!

Sheep and be damned! Bawl your eyes out, Shrinkle!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: GUEST,999
Date: 06 Nov 12 - 11:52 PM

Ladies and gentlemen, how did the House do?

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: Ron Davies
Date: 06 Nov 12 - 11:54 PM

289 electoral votes for the President (does include OH). But supposedly even without OH, he'd have 271.

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 06 Nov 12 - 11:57 PM

You're another mindless Amerikan, Mr. Fluff.
Wall Street won. The dice were loaded long ago. The cards were marked. The House wins. Every time.
=(:-( ))

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: GUEST,Lighter
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 12:01 AM

Carl Rove says Romney can still win.

The Romney campaign says it will not concede at this time.

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: Wesley S
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 12:04 AM

Henry - do you ever get tired of being a whiner?

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 12:05 AM

Yeah, the house wins, of course. Thank goodness it's finally over! This means Chongo can get back to his real work pursuing petty criminals instead of pursuing the dangerous chimera of the US presidency. By tomorrow I'm sure he will feel a palpable sense of relief. The world (except the Likud Party in Israel) will be relieved that Romney didn't win.

And...things should get a bit friendlier around here too, hopefully. That would be a good thing to see.

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: GUEST,999
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 12:05 AM

HOW did the HOUSE do????

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: GUEST,999
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 12:07 AM

Next time, speed it up, willya? I don't need your help to look like an idiot, many thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: Ron Davies
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 12:10 AM

House will be unclear for quite a while. Looks as if GOP keeps it.

Have to say WETA for one is just totally unfair in its coverage. Not only does Romney lose, but his supporters on screen are fatter than the Obama crowd.    Pobre cito.

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 12:13 AM

Amerika loses again. You folkie anti-establishment types sure are conservative.
Baaa!Baaa!
=(:-( P)

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 12:15 AM

Kentucky lost its Democratic representative Ben Chandler to Republican Andy Barr. Democrat Tammy Duckworth from Illinois beat Republican Joe Walsh, so she'll be going to the House. Other races for House seats ...?

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: ollaimh
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 12:25 AM

all the vote spression dirty tricks of the republicasns couldn't win it for them. they usd the control of florida state government and the supreme court to appoint w bush but not this time.

too bad about last time, no w bush no iraq war and no three trillion dollars down the drain to the military corporations.

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: michaelr
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 12:30 AM

Senate = Dems, House = Repubs, Prez = Obama.

$2 billion or more spent. Nothing's changed.

Who's happy?

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 12:33 AM

Those who wanted Obama to win are happy. (and that means most of the world!) But, yeah, nothing's really changed, except that Mitt Romney has probably had his last kick at the presidential can.

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: Ron Davies
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 12:33 AM

Hey, Fox is real entertaining.    What they now say--and it must be true, since it's on Fox--is that Romney only wrote one speech--an acceptance speech.

So he has to write another speech.

Ain't that cute.

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 12:37 AM

Florida, Virginia, and Nevada are still uncounted, but the forecast gives it to Obama

Latest thing posted shows Senate with 50 seats Dem, 44 Rep, but still 6 seats undecided.

The House is showing 200 Rep to 146 Dem, with about 75 seats remaining; but the Republicans only need about 10 of those to have half of 'em.

The MSNBC.com home site has a tracker/predictor up, but they're redirecting to an election news page and I haven't been able to snatch a decently useful url to make a link. They're probably as reliable as any of the places tracking results, but nobody can make any guarantees until all the hanging chads are counted amd of course until the challenges are resolved.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: Don Firth
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 12:53 AM

Romney officially codes.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: GUEST,999
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 12:59 AM

IMO, once again the American people have done their best to decide between an idiot and a fool. The real election happened at a more grass roots level, and therein should they find how to govern themselves. It is disgusting that once again money has decided how American democracy is run. Logical votes would have done what Henry Krinkle did: GREEN.

Four more years of same-o same-o.

Nothing is about to change: not the news, not the rhetoric, not the value of people's feelings. It is a sadness too sad to be true (thank you Jesse).

Unless you get off your asses and develop a good third party, one that's stronger than the religious 'right' or the tea party--I refuse to capitalize that name--you will lose your country.

Odds makers have already called Romney in 2016. For those who want control, four years don't mean shit. Money isn't older than people, but it's rich enough to convince us it is.

Congratulations to America, and I guess it sucks to be the rest of us. Sour grapes? I suppose. But you will feel it hit home if you do nothing but revel in a Pyrrhic victory.

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: ollaimh
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 01:06 AM

karl rove delayed admitting they lost because he was sure he had rigged those voting machines. he's still scratching his head.

somebody must have cancelled his rigging with their own. only possible explaination.

ido not think obama is either an idiot or fool. romney is gordon gecko. a corupt leveraged buy out expert.

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 01:14 AM

Thank you, Bruce. Thank you very much.
=(:-( D)

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 01:24 AM

Perhaps now with the second term in the bag, Obama will have the balls to tell the big drug and health care insurance companies to "go forth and multiply" and bring decent universal health care to the American people. What a legacy that would be!

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: GUEST,999
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 01:27 AM

Hey, buddy, when you're right, you're right. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 01:58 AM

When I got home this afternoon about an hour ago, I heard a news report on the election result, but didn't hear who won. I was asking the radio WHO? WHO?? I've been listening to news radio ever since, savouring the result.

Now I'm listening to President Obama's speech. Congratulations to him & to all the 'Catters & others who helped in his campaign. Over the past few weeks reporters based in the US have kept us up to date on the campaign.

Last night we heard from volunteers who traveled to Ohio to help get voters out. One was an Australian who has been working in New York for about 6 years & even tho he can't vote, has been helping on the campaign. He said there many other non-citizens helping, some had flown in from other countries.

sandra



Australian Live Blog on US election

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: michaelr
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 02:11 AM

999 - Romney 2016? Never again will that buffoon seek public office.

Obama does not have the balls to force insurance companies out of health care. I'm not sure anyone could.

Once again, we're stuck with the lesser evil, and are deprived of the common good.

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: Ron Davies
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 02:25 AM

Well Michael, why don't you run?   I'm sure your ideas are far better than anybody else's and the public should not be deprived of your talent--which I trust does extend beyond sour cynicism, though admittedly we have not seen anything else so far from you.

At least you seem to have some notion of grammar and are capable of putting a few sentences together.   Congratulations to you. That's a start.

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 02:37 AM

Well, I'm happy. Some might wish for a liberal ideologue, but I think the Tea Party has shown us that we've had enough of ideologues. Barack Obama is a good man, an intelligent man, a man who has done an excellent job in his first four years as President. I can't understand why his opponents hate him so much. I'm hoping that we can get past all the partisan crap in the next four years, and get to the business of running the country.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 02:39 AM

Much as I am terrified by the lately developing republican party and disenchanted with the democrat party, a vote for any other party would have been wasted.

But I am heartened by Americans determination to exercise the right vote against many obstructions, technical and personal.   

I would love to see the Green party rise to a legitimately strong enough party to govern from the white house, but better I would more wish to see a real working cooperation between all parties for the good of all citizens and the good of the wider world.

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 02:58 AM

One of the most shocking things is the irrefutable proof of the voting machines altering people's votes.

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 03:11 AM

I voted Green. And I've been attacked every step of the way. By Mudcatters.
=(:-( 0)

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: skarpi
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 04:34 AM

tú gratjúleisjun....Obama wins :))......not the man who wanted to open a window in 30 thousand feet on an air plane ...thank god for that ...

no tea party ´s .....

hope the Demo´s will still win after 4 years ...

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: Owen Woodson
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 05:47 AM

I watched it on tv until 3am GMT before I finally went to bed. At that time Obama was starting to pull ahead, but the result was still all to play for. I woke just before 6am, turned the radio on and got the voice of Mitt Romney making a speech. 'Oh God', thinks I. 'He's won. Then I heard him say something like "It would have been nice to have been president", let out a great YEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!! and went back to sleep.

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: GUEST,Lighter
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 07:04 AM

I heard of *one* machine that was reported as altering a vote. It was repaired.

But in a related development, a Fox News guest charges that Obama won Ohio through voter fraud.

Donald Trump has called the election a "sham and a travesty" and Obama's win was a "disgusting injustice." He says that America is no longer a democracy and "The world is laughing at us." He calls for a "march on Washington."

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/trump-election-meltdown-twitter-obama-march-washington-054449245--election.html

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: sciencegeek
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 07:11 AM

You could have had a woman. You could have voted Green. Instead you went along with a broken system. You sheep. Baaaa!!
=(:-( P)

and that's the exact thinking that put G W in office the first time around...

how about thinking globally and acting locally???? how about putting sane candidates on the local ballots instead of the same old political hacks.   as long as the old faces get elected, because there is no friggin' alternative, then we will have political parties that feel "entitled", rather than committed to serving the country & ALL of its citizens.

and while we're at it... how about working for an educational system that really teaches kids how to think for themselves rather than spitting back canned answers????

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 07:12 AM

Poor Henry, all that, AND he plays banjo. Deepest sympathies Krankie

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: The Sandman
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 07:21 AM

a good result

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: GUEST,davemc
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 07:30 AM

Zzzzzzzzz. Just wish they'd stop boring us to death with the US election nonsense on the UK tv. They've been fawning over Obama for months.

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 07:49 AM

I didn't vote for Bush. I voted Libertarian those times. And I play more guitar than banjo. Banjo gives me a little variety.
=(:-( D)

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 07:52 AM

Just listening to NPR's commentary that the Republicans "separation from reality" -- contributed by the right-wing media -- is what lost them the election(s).

My feeling is just so much RELIEF.

Maybe now there IS hope that something can be accomplished in digging out from the mess Obama inherited. The most important thing here is the Republicans failed in their 4-year effort to make him a one-term president. I certainly hope -- for the good of the country -- that they will start working WITH the President and their colleagues across the aisle for a change.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 07:54 AM

""I voted Green. And I've been attacked every step of the way. By Mudcatters.
=(:-( 0)""

You enter this forum simply to post a constant stream of whinges, insults and egregious nonsense, and then expect to be welcomed with open arms?

The only thing anybody can say about you voting green is that, in the present political climate, that is a stupid waste of a vote.

What else did you expect, and DO please try to make your answer polite and reasonably sensible. Try a new experience!

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: Wolfgang
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 08:02 AM

In Germany, the support among white Germans for Obama was even higher than the support for him among black USAmericans. From a Middle European perspective, the right wing of the Republicans (tea party, etc.) looks like a lunatic fringe.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: bobad
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 08:03 AM

Please don't feed the trolls.....sigh.

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: EBarnacle
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 08:03 AM

I find it interesting that they are talking about voting machines and corruption in Ohio when all of the malfunctions that have been reported consist of the machines changing the vote from Obama to Romney.
Fortunately, people distrust the machines and look at what is being entered. Several of these machines were spotted and taken out of service.
The company that owns the machines is run by a Romney crony. Check it out.

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: bobad
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 08:07 AM

Not directed to you Wolfgang. The same is true in Canada - most Canadians can't understand how so many Americans actually buy into that extremist crap.

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 08:23 AM

I agree that it is worrying that what Wolfgang so rightly calls the lunatic fringe will probably carry on stonewalling in the lower house and filibusting in the upper house to make sure that NOTHING, not even what they have previously asked for, gets done. "The Cliff" as it has been dubbed, will put the USA back in recession if nothing can (for such reasons) be done to change it.

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins!!!
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 08:26 AM

No matter how Prez al-Obama sells you out, you won't have any right to complain. Just suck it up, sweetcheeks.
He's your man.
=(:-( P)